Theatres & Other Works

In addition to the List of Theatres on the previous page, here is the list of theatres that were originally built by others, but for which Frank Matcham was the architect of the re-built theatre, or partial adaptations of a pre-existing building. All have been demolished except where shown in bold. It has been taken from the Theatres Trust “Guide to British Theatres 1750-1950 A Gazetteer”.

Frank Matcham was also architect to a number of other projects which did not reach fruition (including a European opera house, Woolwich Grand, Beresford Square, a complex in Llandudno, new theatres in Dewsbury, Barrow-in-Furness, Huddersfield (Grand) and Chatham; a new theatre, circus and market in Blackpool and probably many others. Among his non-theatre works were a new wing, designed without charge, for the Variety Artistes’ Benevolent Fund at Brinsworth House, the County Arcade in Leeds, the Blackpool Tower Ballroom and Circus, and various pubs and shops. Matcham and Co. designed cinemas in the period after 1912 latterly in partnership with F.G.M. Chancellor.